![]() With three friends, there was guaranteed melee to be found in the game with non stop action and interactive environments. The big selling point of this game is precisely what it should be, the ability to play as all four brothers at the same time. While it is almost entirely based on the cartoon, there are a few nods for the comic book fans to be found, most notably April’s burning apartment, a central plot point in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #10, and also featured in the first live action movie released in 1990. Going underground, they also eventually encounter the Technodrome for a final showdown. There is even a level where the radical greensters go skatin’ down the highways at blurring speeds. The urban adventure takes you through the city itself, from the burning apartments to the sewers and downtown Manhattan. This leads the three fingered quartet on a wild ride throughout New York City to save their friend and master while saving the city once again. Now Master Splinter is also gone, and Shredder issues a challenge to the Ninja Turtles to save them by going through the Foot Clan. The TMNT receive a distress call from April ‘O Neil and the brothers go to rescue their news reporting friend, only to find themselves lured into a trap with April as bait. The general plot should sound quite familiar by now. Despite the many other memorable, fantastic games released around it, it’s arguable that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the one that is today most fondly remembered as well as the one that has aged most generously. ![]() But 1989 would usher in a golden age of beat-em-ups, with Golden Axe being amazingly successful, DJ Boy truly bringing hip-hop to the kids and Final Fight right around the corner. In the summer of 1989, Konami themselves had already released Crime Fighters and Special Project Y, both of which were mediocre at best. ![]() Even though the release of Double Dragon in 1987 opened the doors to hundreds of brawling action games, few attempted to move the genre forward and over just two years, it was by that point getting stale. The beat-em-up genre would see something of a resurgence in 1989. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t enter the market without some fierce competition either. There was no mistaking who, what or where players would find themselves in this game, everything was tailor made for the fans in order to give them the best experience possible with the foursome. It was released several months later in Japan, and was the first TMNT affiliated product to actually bear its original name there.Ĭontrasting the NES’s somewhat inconsistent portrayal and daunting difficulty, the arcade game was stylistically grandiose, featuring visuals, music and locations right out of the 1987 cartoon series in a beat-em-up that perfectly fit the heroes in a half shell. The aptly titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles allowed players to take control of the four mutant teenagers at the same time, leading to awesome mayhem and lifelong memories. In October of 1989 across all arcades in North America and Europe, the game that would solidify Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘s place in gaming and set the standard for the beat-em-up genre going forward was released. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Double Damage.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ninja Tribunal / The Shredder Reborn.TMNT: Ninja Adventures – Mini-Game and Activity Centre.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward: Ninja Training NYC / TMNT: Power of 4.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (Plug and Play).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare (DS).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare (Console).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (GBA).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (Consoles).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (GBA – 2003).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Console – 2003).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis).Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan. ![]() Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone Heist.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Missions.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: World Tour.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game.
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